so i'm starting an indiemaps.com blog

This blog is an experiment. Luckily, hundreds of others have engaged the experiment before me. I am using Blosxom.PHP. I tried WordPress, which is great for most, but I found it impeded my desire for 1) a blog setup I completely understood, 2) a blog I could easily modify, 3) a completely *minimal* blog (posts, simple filtering, that's it), and 4) an XHTML 1.0 Strict implementation with full CSS support.

Blosxom.PHP is a rewrite of PHPosxom, which is a PHP port of the original Blosxom (written in Perl). Big ups to Michal Migurski of Stamen Design for bringing Blosxom to my attention.

What I love about Blosxom.PHP: No database is required. Well, that is, no mySQL database is required. The whole thing is very RESTful. "Blog posts" are simply text files uploaded to certain directories on my server space. This post itself is a text file (with xhtml markup) called blosxomPHP.txt and has been uploaded to the indiemaps.com/blog/blogs/administrative/ folder on my server space.